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Yeah, I'm hoping the fact that the uninsulated part is indoors will save the day. If it was going through an external wall and upwards I'd definitely go insulated but if it works the heat from the steel flue will be useful background heat in the other part of the building as well.

Mine leaks at the oil outlet from the tank, which is like a rubber bung type thingy with a pipe running through it. I've removed it and resealed it numerous times but it always starts leaking again, more in warmer weather, less in cold weather when the oil is thicker. From what I can gather, that's where most of them leak from as well. Therefore, leaving the saw on it's side with the fill caps downwards would prevent it but it leaks so little in reality that I seldom bother.

I'm probably a bit biased but I think if your house suits it, then a good second-hand solid fuel cooker is the way to go. Good big fire box, durable, good boiler output, will burn just about anything you put in it, very controlable, and bakes the best sponge cakes you'll ever eat. Put in as big a hot water cylinder with it as you have room for, plus another feed for your existing radiators. A bit of money to spend but not outrageous.

Was that not the very principle behind the creation of ebay? And it worked very well for a good number of years too before it became just another online store. Twenty plus years ago I picked up some terrific parts off it for my oldest bikes, usually from people who'd had them laying around since the 70's when the bikes were contemporary. They were happy that they'd gotten a few quid for clutter but also that someone was getting some use out of them. Then the computer boom happened, then the "e-commerce" boom happened, and human nature done the rest!

Handiness I think is the key. Simply being able to pick something up and use it (assuming you keep on top of battery management) with no fuel to fill and engine to start, or no lead to unravel and plug in, is in lots of instances a decent trade off for what may be a lack of out and out performance. I've gone to cordless sheep shears in the past few months, and now a cordless blower, both working well but a fair investment in both cases. To me cordless is certainly now worthy of consideration in many instances but by no means will always be the best option.

KTM Duke is nice. Looks good, decent confidence inspiring riding position, goes pretty well. Not often I recommend anything beyond the big four which speaks volumes for it.

Maybe not "windy" as such, but surrounding area would be flatish and to the south and west is a huge natural floodplain so there's certainly no adverse conditions to allow for.

Previously I provided background heat for my small shop from an oil-filled electric radiator, but when I realised that was going to be a considerably more expensive option in future I decided to pay a visit to my local stove supplier and see what I could pick up to replace it. Long story short, I got an ex-demo Burley Hollywell which had been returned from their other branch because they found it difficult to light (the reason for which became obvious at a later date) therefore the vermiculite boards weren't even blackened, for a very respectable 500 quid cash, and no VAT. It's been sitting all summer simply because there's always something else here that needs doing, but now installing it is what needs doing, or at least the first moves in that direction. So, the first run of flue will be two 45 degree bends with a straight bit in the middle to take it from the shop part of the building, through an internal wall and out in to the main part of the building and from there it will be roughly 8 or 9 ft straight up and through the roof. For that straight run I have heavy sidewall 9in mild steel flue pipe laying about which I could use, it would also give off a bit of heat along it's length in to the space which it's running through, but, will it loose too much heat to allow the flue to draw properly? If it didn't work, I could always put a flexible liner through it and fill around it with vermiculite, but if there was much likelihood of that happening I'd just put in a length of twin-wall flue pipe from the get go and be done. Thoughts?

Looka a good 'un too. Oh, and in case anybody wonders, I know feck all about it or the person selling it, just going by the photos and having one of my own.

Word salad!

Were we not told by the remainers that any talk of the EU making governmental decisions for member states was paranoid nonsense. That being the case, how can the EU actually impose a tax on anybody or anything?

There was someone on here this morning asking for a guide price for a 109 Dolmar. It'll be a superior saw in pretty much every way to anything you'll buy new for £200, or even more.

Count me in. 👍 Oh, and here preferably, don't have instagram.

Surely a good Presbyterian wouldn't be at a bar in the first place? Or have I got that wrong somewhere.

A good barman's biggest challenge is getting people to stop buying when the time comes.

A good salesman will relish the challenge.

Then nature must have decided to have a bit of bogland rather than a pond. Better going with the flow, or lack of it in this case.

But that's only because somebody has decided that they want a pond where nature has no need for a pond. You can't expect nature to look after something that it didn't want there in the first instance surely?

No, because sheep being the contrary-some creatures that they are would probably then decide to go after the new shoots and the willow would end up luring them in to the river.

I've never planted willow but I've quite a number self-seeded in my wood, and like yourself, a lot self-seeded along a stretch of riverbank which I own. My experience of them is that there is nothing as robust. We graze sheep along the river and they are harsh on the riverbank willow at times, it doesn't deter the willow one jot. I do tend to think however that possibly they're not the most pallatable plant as there's always plenty of new growth on the willow which they don't bother with for some reason. But as above, if you're going for asthetics, probably best cut above where anything around it will be able to reach although even then it won't stop them stripping bark if they take the notion.

Absolutely, the consequences of human interference are seldom mitigated by more human interference*. Just let nature get on with it. * - tree planting excepted. But plant them and then let nature get on with it!

Lightweight. Jean Claude Van Damme can catch them mid-air, with chopsticks, blindfolded!

It's bit weird, you pull the battery out and stick it in again within something like 5secs and it allows you to go through all the tones, changing every time you do it. You'd wonder why they just didn't give you a button or something.🤔

All I know now is that the Makita chargers are known for being particularly noisey (which they are) due to their inbuilt fans. Maybe it's something that's been addressed with extra cooling before and during the charging cycle?

I've been researching this stuff high and low for the past few weeks prior to buying in to a proper system for the first time and I haven't seen anything anywhere to support that view.